Born in Bogdănești, Baia County, he attended gymnasium at Fălticeni (1907–1911) and high school in Iași (1911–1914).
He was associate professor of diplomatic history at Iași University from 1928 to 1935, as well as teaching at the Military High School.
[1] A member of the National Peasants' Party, of which he was adjunct general secretary from 1940, he was first elected to the Assembly of Deputies in 1932.
He collected archival documents about Romania in Paris, London, Brussels and Berlin, which he did not have a chance to publish.
He left unpublished studies of the May 1864 coup, the 1862-1863 Constantinople conference resulting in the definitive Union of the Principalities, and the issue of capitulations and the great powers during the time of Alexandru Ioan Cuza.